The whole idea around Fallout is there is a huge nuclear war between China and the U.S. around 2077, and the tensions just before the war brought Atomic Age fashion and style back into vogue. This backstory allows them to use iconic 50s stuff (the artists are kids, of course, so sometimes this ends up being more 40s, or even 30s sometimes, but that's their intent.

Anyway, this announcement has been waited for for four years now. (wow..for...for...four....love you English). The hype is strong with this one. We'll see what Bethesda does.

Oh, I wish. I really enjoy games, complex ones that are more like an interactive novel or good movie than button mashing. I especially like the Fallout series because the creativity in imagining what a world would look like 130 years after a devastating nuclear war.

This one will be in Boston, which will be new territory for the game. So far as I can tell, MIT has morphed into "The Institute" and runs what it calls "The Commonwealth" with an iron fist, while the monk-like Brotherhood of Steel, whose goal is to confiscate all high tech to ensure a war never happens again, has taken and fortified Logan Airport. How the player fits into this, I have no idea.

On the negative side, there is no doubt that I get into gaming when I find the social world around me painful. I have such a hard time going out now, watching people stare at their smart phones. It's escapism, no doubt.